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I thought the "secret sauce" was hidden from Arc sources..?
by d0m 16y ago
I thought the "secret sauce" was hidden from Arc sources..?
- tptacek 16y agoMy understanding is that the actual HN implementation is heavily customized and not public.
- grourk 16y agoMaybe what's hidden is the code for determining what counts as a vote. e.g., multiple votes from the same IP may be discounted or simply counted as a single vote. Or a bunch of votes coming from fresh accounts created at or after submission time.
- weaksauce 16y agoThat algorithm has been in the source for a while. What is unknown is the current constants and if he changed it at all since first publishing it.